FORT MYERS, FL—United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces that Candice Marie Miller (31, Alva) was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in federal prison for one count of possession of child pornography, two counts of transporting child pornography, and two counts of producing child pornography. Miller pled guilty to the charges on July 7, 2011.

According to court documents, Miller knowingly produced images of her two minor children engaging in sexually explicit conduct and sent approximately 100 of these pornographic images over the Internet to a man whom she met in an Internet chat room. Miller possessed in excess of 500 images of child pornography.

This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Innocent Images Task Force and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Yolande G. Viacava.

It is another case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov and click on the tab “other resources.”

Bizarre Child Sex Photo CaseWe've got plenty of candidates for Worst Mother Ever, and most of them seem to be coming from Florida.

Today's candidate is Candice Marie Miller, a 31-year-old from Alva who has just pleaded guilty to producing, transporting and possessing child porn image.

Of her own children.

Police say Miller took nude photos of herself and her son and daughter, who were 13 and 9, respectively, at the time and sent them to a man posing as an online child therapist who allegedly told women to abuse their children sexually as part of their "therapy" and send him the images.

That man, Steven Demink, was actually a car salesman who apparently just wanted women to send him child porn images, according to Huffington Post Crime .

The two met on a dating site for single parents... which is not exactly how I pictured those places.